Friday, March 10, 2023

Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility [2023]


Artist: Carnosus
Album: Visions of Infinihility
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://carnosus.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/Carnosus
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Ossein Larcenist
2. Calamity Crawl
3. Castle of Grief
4. Fermenting Blastospheres of Future Putridity
5. In Debt to Oblivion
6. Devourer of Light
7. Procession of Depression
8. Towards Infinihilistic Purity
9. Among Worms It Was Whispered

Witness: -[*]-
This newest album from Carnosus is good but maybe a little chaotic at times, I need to give it more time because I do really like their older material.

Deviation - New Generation of Torture [2015]


Artist: Deviation
Album: New Generation of Torture
Year: 2015
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/RPU9jah09c4
Country: Poland
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Need to Kill
2. New Generation of Torture
3. No More Insanity
4. My Private Playground
5. Nuclear Disease
6. Why?!
7. Far from the Prayer
8. Last Chance

Witness: -[*]-
I really liked this disc when it came out several years ago, but I'm not sure that it got much attention around here so I'm bringing it back around again for another round of promotion. This is my own rip \m/\m/

Wretched Inferno - Cacophony of Filth [2022]


Artist: Wretched Inferno
Album: Cacophony of Filth
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Ag_h1fKKU0k
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Fornication of a Rotting Cadaver  
2. Embryonic Molestation  
3. Urethral Disembowelment  
4. Severed Arterial Wall  
5. Mysophillia  
6. Acid Chugger  
7. Mortal Entombment  
8. Mauled by a Bear  
9. Cacophony of Filth  
10. Maggot Host (Obliviation cover) 

Witness: -[*]-

Saturday, March 4, 2023

Majesties - Vast Reaches Unclaimed [2023]


Artist: Majesties
Album: Vast Reaches Unclaimed
Year: 2023
Genre: Melodic Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/3W3iZHn1rdE / https://www.20buckspin.com/collections/majesties
Country: United States
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. In Yearning, Alive  
2. The World Unseen  
3. Our Gracious Captors  
4. Verdant Paths to Radiance  
5. Across the Neverwhen  
6. Seekers of the Ineffable  
7. Sidereal Spire  
8. Temporal Anchor  
9. City of Nine Gates  
10. Journey's End

Witness: -[*]-
If Cardinal Sin and Eucharist would have gang raped In Flames back in the day, then the bastard child spawned from that perverted union would be Majesties. This group from Minneapolis, Minnesota, is one of the better imitators of the Gothenburg sound that I have heard in a long time and they would have easily flourished in that scene.

Exitus - Liebyrinth [2023]


Artist: Exitus
Album: Liebyrinth
Year: 2023
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/dp9xCIzWFB8 / https://exitusthrashgang.bandcamp.com/
Country: Czechia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Repressive Tolerance  
2. Final Solution (...of Existence)  
3. Ruleout  
4. Flash Remains  
5. Destroy This World  
6. World Error  
7. The Nothingness (Preludium)  
8. Apocalypse Never  
9. God Has Left This Place  
10. Liebyrinth  
11. Escape from Reality  
12. God Only Knows (Pro-Pain cover)

Witness: -[*]-

Amorphia - Lethal Dose [2022]


Artist: Amorphia
Album: Lethal Dose
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://www.facebook.com/Amorphiathrash/ / https://www.instagram.com/amorphia_thrash/
Country: India
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Chambers of Pain (Intro)  
2. Trade Red
3. Death Machines
4. Psychotic Torment
5. Electrocution
6. Lethal Dose
7. Iron Lungs
8. Mind Cell
9. Cerebral Slit

Witness: -[*]-

Amorphia - Merciless Strike [2020]


Artist: Amorphia 
Album: Merciless Strike
Year: 2020
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/gyXkRrnd9vY / https://amorphiathrash.bandcamp.com/
Country: India
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Death Zone
2. Judgement Day
3. Merciless Strike
4. Mutants' Rise
5. Upcoming Terror
6. Radiation Overdose
7. Martian Law
8. Blazing Glares

Witness: -[*]-
This is some tasty thrash metal that would have fit into the late 80s scene nicely with the exception that these guys are from India and I wasn't aware of any bands from that part of the world back then.

Rake-Off - Observing Madness [2022]


Artist: Rake-Off
Album: Observing Madness 
Year: 2022
Genre: Thrash Metal / Crossover
Web: https://youtu.be/vfk9WCfqVTI
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Glowing Descent
2. To Live in Fear
3. Killing Machine
4. Evil from the Depths
5. Living Paradox
6. Push Me Down
7. Eternal Curse
8. Trapped
9. Modern Slavery
10. Deathrider (Anthrax cover)

Witness: -[*]-

As Above So Below - Stigmata (EP) [2023]


Artist: As Above So Below
Album: Stigmata
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal / Black Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/FbUAqOfa79w
Country: Unknown
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Stigmata  
2. Incarnation Satanas  
3. Heart of Anger  
4. Son of Dawn  
5. Sol Invictus  
6. At the End of Time and Space

Witness: -[*]-
I can't really find any identity for this band, no country, no members, no Bandcamp page, nothing but I do like these tracks, so hopefully, more info materializes soon. 

Skombrus - Betrayal of the Breed [2017]


Artist: Skombrus
Album: Betrayal of the Breed
Year: 2017
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://skombrus.bandcamp.com/ / https://www.facebook.com/SkombrusThrashMetal/
Country: Brazil
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Aim in the Head
2. Crack Massacre
3. Bankrup Justice
4. Guilhotine, Torture and Genocide
5. Betrayal of the Breed
6. Soco na Cara
7. State of Suffering
8. Olho por Olho
9. Violent Life

Witness:
So, this is a quirky yet cool thrash metal album, it comes a little off of the rails at times but overall is interesting and entertaining. Metal-Archives states that they're still active so hopefully something new will be coming in the future. They have had no recent activity that I have seen on the Web.

Comaniac - Holodox [2020]


Artist: Comaniac
Album: Holodox
Year: 2020
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://comaniac.bandcamp.com/album/holodox / https://www.facebook.com/ComaniacOfficial/
Country: Switzerland
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Holodox
2. The New Face of Hell
3. Art Is Dead
4. Head of the Snake
5. Narcotic Clan
6. Legend Heaven
7. Love and Pride
8. Under the Gun
9. Bittersweet
10. Alma Martyr

Witness: -[*]-

Comaniac - Instruction for Destruction [2017]


Artist: Comaniac
Album: Instruction for Destruction
Year: 2017
Genre: Thrash Metal
Web: https://comaniac.ch/
Country: Switzerland
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Coal
2. Suborned
3. Bow Low
4. Guarding Ruins
5. How to End It All
6. Self Control
7. Shattered  
8. Heart of Stone
9. Forever More
10. Instruction for Destruction

Witness: -[*]-

Friday, March 3, 2023

Ontborg - Following the Steps of Damnation [2023]


Artist: Ontborg
Album: Following the Steps of Damnation
Year: 2023
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://ontborg.bandcamp.com / https://www.facebook.com/Ontborg/
Country: Italy
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Steps of Damnation
2. Purgatory
3. Echoes ot Time
4. Nightfall
5. To the North
6. Underneath
7. I Am the Night
8. Ending Path
9. Old Mother Frost
10. The Tower

Witness: -[*]-
OSDM worship from Merano, Italy, a bit too much on the melodic side but with just enough HM2 fuzz to make it believable. 

Enthraller - The Devil King of the Sixth Heaven [2010]


Artist: Enthraller
Album: The Devil King of the Sixth Heaven
Year: 2010 
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/eOps7glBZs0
Country: United States
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Devil King  
2. Lust for Sickness  
3. Born of War  
4. Defiled Earth  
5. Descending Illuminati  
6. Mindless Slaves  
7. Leech of Depravity  
8. Avichi Hell  
9. Kalpa of Decay

Witness: -[*]-
These guys were/are from Torrence, California, but their current status is unknown. They made 3 albums in the early part of the 2000s but this is the only one of their efforts that I ever heard and it wasn't/isn't bad at all.

Coffin Lust - Manifestation of Inner Darkness [2016]


Artist: Coffin Lust
Album: Manifestation of Inner Darkness
Year: 2016
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/s2D2m7yOt_g
Country: Australia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Excoriation of Morality
2. Beyond Redemption
3. Mass Extinction
4. Chaos Absolute
5. Swarming Black Inferno
6. Damnation's Bringer
7. Prophecy of Malevolence
8. Manifestation of Inner Darkness

Witness: Link removed

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

SourceRa's Best of 2022

Well, it took me quite a while, but I eventually managed to do my BOTY 2022. This time I didn´t write sth. for every entry – cuz I sure as hell wouldn´t be finished by now – instead there´s a YT link for every entry so you can judge for yourselves.

So, here are my Top 5:


1. Aurora Borealis (USA) – Prophecy Is The Mold In Which History Is Poured

2. Immolation (USA) – Acts Of God

3. Criminal Element (USA/RUS) – Abuse Of Power

4. Origin (USA) – Chaosmos

5. Analepsy (POR) – Quiescence

And here´s the rest in no particular order:


• Posthuman Abomination (ITA) – Mankind Recall
• Akinetopsia (BRA) – Collapse Of Continuum
• Amputate (POR/CH) – Dawn Of Annihilation
• Anchillys (NED) – Elan Vital
• Antropofagus (ITA) – Origin
• Barbatos (BRA) – Raw, Aggressive And Blasphemous
• Brute (SLO) – Essence Of Tyranny
• Shuriken Cadaveric Entwinement (USA) – Constructing The Cataclysm
• Bleeding Display (POR) – Dawn Of A Killer
• Decaying Flesh (IDN) – Virtuous In Suffering
• Devilpriest (POL) – In Repugnant Adoration
• Disgustibus (ITA) – True Taste Of Terror
• Emulsified (USA) – Apocalypse
• Exocrine (FRA) – The Hybrid Suns
• Father Befouled (USA) – Crowned In Veneficum
• Carceri (NED) – From Source To End
• Grand Old Wrath (GER) – Every Man For Himself
• Gutural Disease (IDN) – The Foreseen Deadline
• Haunted Shores (USA) – Void
• Desecrate The Faith (USA) – III
• Burying Place (LT) – In The Light Of Burning Churches
• JOADS (ITA) – Yersinia Pestis
• Krisiun (BRA) – Mortem Solis
• Golgothan (USA) – Leech
• Misgivings (FRA) – Misgivings
• Cryptic Hatred (FIN) – Nocturnal Sickness
• Order Ov Riven Cathedrals (ITA) – Absolute
• Raster Density (FIN) – Apothecary´s Tome Ov Depravity And Filth
• Sceptic (POL)– Nailed To Ignorance
• Sonivinos (USA/CAN/BEL) - Sonicated Intravaginal Insemination in Numbers
• Soreption (SWE)– Jord
• Stench Of Death (CAN) – Aeternum After
• SubOrbital (GER) – Planetary Disruption
• The Antichrist Imperium (UK/AUS) - Volume III: Satan in His Original Glory
• Troglodyte (USA) - The Hierarchical Ecological Succession: Welcome to the Food Chain
• Sublation (USA)– The Path To Bedlam
• ULO (IDN) – Three Two
• Vomit Forth (USA) – Seething Malevolence
• Wafat (IDN)– Feminism
• Waste Of Humanity (CHL) – Push The Weak Around
• Obvurt – Triumph Beyond Adversity
 

EPs:


• Abysmal Dawn (USA) – Nightmare Frontier
• Achromatous (GER) – Achromatous
• Deformatory (CAN) – Harbinger
• Epidermal Veil (ICE) – Psalms Of The Flayed
• Solus Ex Inferis (AUS/IND/USA/CHL) – Exogenesis
• Illucinus (USA) – The Machine
• Death Machine (CAN) – Inanimate
• Infrastrvctvre (CAN) – Infrastrvctvre
• Perdition Temple (USA) – Merciless Upheaval
• Power Concept (HUN/SRB/AUS/GER) - Inhuman Compatible
• Severe Torture (NED) – Fisting The Sockets
• The Sound That Ends Creation (USA) - Unicorn Laser Bubblegum City
• Vagus (SWE) – Sulfurous
• Vril (ECU) – Nephilim

Honorable Mentions:


•  Apostate (UK) – In the Image of God
•  Dead Squad (IDN) – Catharsis
•  Decrapted (ESP) – Bloody Rivers Of Death
•  Decipher (NOR) – Breed Of An Obsolete Kind
•  Decapitated (POL) – Cancer Culture
•  Embryonic Devourment (USA) – Heresy Of The Highest Order
•  Sadistic Drive (FIN) – Perpetual Torture
•  Rebel Souls (GER) – Dawn Of Depravity
•  Thanatophobia (BLR/RUS) – Rebirth Through Destruction
•  Rejuvenation (BGR) – Crystalline
•  Werewolves (AUS) – From The Cave To The Grave
•  Writhing Shadows (USA) – Writhing Shadows

Enjoy and let the Metal flow!

Sunday, February 26, 2023

Crown Of Madness - Elemnetal Binding (EP) [2023]


Artist: Crown Of Madness
Album: Elemental Binding
Year: 2023
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/17JiLeH2ZvE
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Immortal Eyes
2. A Wrenching Nostalgia  
3. Roots, Limbs and Sky  
4. Vile Sun

Witness: -[*]-

Crown Of Madness - The Void (EP) [2022]


Artist: Crown Of Madness
Album: The Void
Year: 2022
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/IGuaVlmBaH4
Country: Canada
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Pale  
2. Eternal Feeding  
3. The Manipulated  
4. Anguish  
5. False God's Hymn

Witness: -[*]-

Orbit Culture - Shaman (EP) [2021]


Artist: Orbit Culture
Album: Shaman
Year: 2021
Genre: Melodic Death Metal / Groove Metal
Web: https://www.orbitculture.com/ / https://orbitculture.bandcamp.com/music
Country: Sweden
Quality: 320 Kbps



Tracklist:
1. Mast of the World
2. Flight of the Fireflies
3. Carvings
4. Strangler
5. A Sailor's Tale

Witness: -[*]-

Humiliation - Infantry [2022]


Artist: Humiliation
Album: Infantry
Year: 2022
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/Em3JKca_XbM
Country: Malaysia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Colonization  
2. Victims of Oppression  
3. Resistance Against Restrictions  
4. The Evoke  
5. Rebellion  
6. Kampar - Advancing Down  
7. Gemencheh Bridge  
8. In the Darkness of Endau's Night  
9. Last Days  
10. Medal of Honour

Witness: -[*]-
Here is the latest annual installment from Malaysia's Humiliation who has been releasing at least 1 full-length album every year since 2010. Our good buddy CarlG has long been a staunch supporter of this band because they check all of the boxes that are important to him when it comes to death metal. They are straight-up, no-frills, 10 - 12 tracks per album, each one clocks in at 45+ minutes, and they don't change from one album to the next, they remain very regimented and consistent in what they do. What more could you ask for from a death metal band?

Humiliation - XI: Triumphant [2020]


Artist: Humiliation
Album: XI: Triumphant
Year: 2020
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/HqGCqvXusOs
Country: Malaysia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Tanjung Kunyit - The Beginning  
2. Tanjung Kunyit - The Tracking Down  
3. Strategy Outpost  
4. Tanjung Kunyit - The Outpost  
5. Tanjung Kunyit - The Final Battle  
6. Codebreakers  
7. This Is Not A Drill  
8. Verge Of Callapse  
9. What Is The Target  
10. Last Resting Place

Witness: -[*]-

Humiliation - Battalion [2014]


Artist: Humiliation
Album: Battalion
Year: 2014
Genre: Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/4EEvsNkRZuY / https://deepsendrecords.bandcamp.com/battalion
Country: Malaysia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. The Malayan Emergency (Intro)  
2. Post Aftermath
3. Liberated Area
4. No Land Rights to Speak Of
5. The Killing Campaign
6. Overthrow
7. Alliance
8. War Path
9. Undefeated
10. Baling Talks
11. Restless Fight

Witness: -[*]-
Even though I don't claim to be an expert on this band because I don't listen to them a lot, I still consider this to be my favorite of their early releases and it holds up pretty well here 9 years later.

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Anacryptic - Architects of Discord [2023]


Artist: Anacryptic
Album: Architects of Discord
Year: 2023
Genre: Technical Death Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/gm4gh25cG88
Country: Colombia
Quality: 320 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Doomed to fall
2. Architects of discord  
3. Void of confusion  
4. Swarming madness  
5. Ape rage  
6. Wings of incivility  
7. Despised altar  
8. Murmuring the meek

Witness: -[*]-
Colombia has been been a fertile breeding ground for some good death metal over the past many years and Anacryptic is another prime example of this fact. They have a couple of EPs and a demo to their credit and now this full length, but at just under 19 minutes I am not sure how it is categorized as an LP. Anyway, the tracks are very good and that is all that matters in the end.

 

Friday, February 24, 2023

Morbikon - Ov Mournful Twilight [2022]


Artist: Morbikon
Album: Ov Mournful Twilight
Year: 2022
Genre: Black Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/qfBP-oXSJvk?list=OLAK5uy_lCE1-uJzJeSynsQXlJaGTtEJFULcPnaxU
Country: International
Quality: 320 Kbps
 
Tracklist:
1. Consumed by Entropy  
2. Universal Funeral
3. Cursed to March on Shattered Limbs
4. Deaththirst  
5. Ov Mournful Twilight  
6. In Ritual Isolation  
7. Borne of Phantom Vessel
8. Infinite Pathways to the Earthen Grave

Witness: -[*]-
A big shout out and huge props to DDM for the intel and heads up on this disc. This is a very good offering of black thrash and the riffs on this album are top-notch headbangers. I probably would have never given this disc a chance if not for his recommendation. Much appreciated my friend \m/\m/ 

Cruentus - Fossilized [2022]


Artist: Cruentus
Album: Fossilized
Year: 2022
Genre: Black Metal / Thrash Metal
Web: https://youtu.be/tm3gYlKCO28 / https://cruentus1.bandcamp.com/night-embrace-me
Country: Sweden
Quality: 192 Kbps

Tracklist:
1. Ascending  
2. The Catalyst  
3. Nihil Ultra  
4. Mot Alltets Slut  
5. The Lost Ones  
6. Prey  
7. Relentless Scourge  
8. Averted Reality  
9. Doldrums  
10. Primordial Reprisal

Witness: -[*]-
Highly entertaining thrashy black metal from this 2-man Swedish project. I pre-ordered and purchased this on Bandcamp last year after hearing only one preview track and that is rare for me with black metal albums but I thought it was that good.